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Bad dog! Add director Tom Dey's dreadful live-action adaptation of the long-running comic strip to the pantheon of dog flicks that'll make you cry — for all the wrong reasons. By ALICIA POTTER | June 09, 2010

On going from Enid to Wilson "If you had told me then that there would be cute girls coming to comic conventions in 15 years, I would’ve told you you were out of your mind." By MIKE MILIARD | April 27, 2010

Move over, Clark Kent. All over New England, mild-mannered citizens are suiting up and doing their part to play the hero. THWAK! I swing with my right fist, trying to connect with my opponent's face. In a smooth motion, he deflects my punch with his forearm, which is protected with a black and metallic-plastic arm gauntlet. I swing with my left fist, and am again knocked away effortlessly. I can see my reflection in his sunglasses, framed in white. By TEA KRULOS | December 11, 2009

Marvel's "Secret War" comes to consoles Comic-book games are all about wish-fulfillment: What comic book fan hasn't dreamed of laying the telekinetic smack down Dark Phoenix-style, or flinging a few of Gambit's explosive cards? By MADDY MYERS | September 30, 2009

Juice justice While the Shepard Fairey–AP showdown was busy raising the public-domain bar, a new case concerning intellectual property recently cropped up on the Internet. This one pits David Rees and his defunct Get Your War On ( GYWO ) comic strip against national smoothie giant Jamba Juice. By LEOR GALIL | August 05, 2009

From the Boston Phoenix archives: the watchmaker speaks. The winner of several "Best Comics Writer" awards on both sides of the Atlantic, he's best known in America as the author of the DC Comics series Swamp Thing and, of course, Watchmen. By M. HOWELL | March 05, 2009

Kevin Hooyman’s ‘Dark Walk’ at Proof, ‘The Exquisite Line’ at BU, ‘Material Meditation’ at The New Art Center In the world of graphic novelist Kevin Hooyman, whose show opens at Proof Gallery on September 13, packed line drawings take you deep into strange and fantastical scenes. By RANDI HOPKINS | September 10, 2008

Dept. of gallows humor Earlier this month, syndicated cartoonist Matt Bors found a new fan in none other than Salim Hamdan, the man tried and convicted for once having been Osama Bin Laden’s driver. By CLIF GARBODEN | August 20, 2008

Cartoons of pitchers and catchers talking are a New Yorker staple. What is so funny about rubbers? The first pitcher/catcher cartoon in the New Yorker was also the simplest. By MIKE MILIARD | August 19, 2008

Political humor is no longer welcome in Academia as administrators choke the life out of parody Artist Barry Blitt’s brilliant illustration — which sought to satirize the naysayers who portray Obama as a flag-burning, unpatriotic Muslim and his wife as a black-power radical — cut to the core of today’s political paradox. By HARVEY SILVERGLATE | July 30, 2008

Ben Katchor explains The Rosenbach Company If obsession is at the core of The Rosenbach Company, says co-creator Ben Katchor, that only makes the pop musical a human story. By CLEA SIMON | November 14, 2007

Evangelicals are speaking in bubbles — and fighting God’s war on pop culture Young Laurel Templeton spends her summer vacation “kidnapped by five cyborg flies and shrunk down to insect size so [she can] travel back in time with them to save the world from an evil spider.” You know, typical stuff. By DEIRDRE FULTON | October 10, 2007

The rise of webcomics and four artists leading the way In the not-too-distant past, telling someone you were interested in webcomics was met with awkward stares and changes of subject. (Trust me.) By JOE BERNARDI | July 10, 2007